Comments on: Activ Solar Commissions 100-Plus MW Perovo Solar PV Station in Ukraine’s Crimea

By: anderlan

anderlan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:44:00 +0000

I know right? Has this person SEEN the tar sands? Dozens of square miles of forest destroyed and replaced with poisonous lakes and mounds of poisonous mud. To make more oil, destroy more forest, poison more water. It’s heartbreaking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zIj_EdQdM

By: anderlan

anderlan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:35:00 +0000

We could produce all the power we need with less than one percent of the land we devote to agriculture. Just because the damage we do with fossil fuels isn’t immediately visible doesn’t mean it’s not catastrophic. It’s time we quit fooling ourselves.

BTW, I’m all for using rooftops, covering parking lots, etc. I think policy should favor household and small commercial production. I think that is vital to any grid policy.

But using open space isn’t as bad as you think. Consider that the panels cool the air underneath and in regions where grass can grow, it will continue to grow even in the low light betwixt the panels. Consider the panels a type of heat-reducing, moisture-saving canopy. You could say that panels are a much better condition for a greenfield than even crop or grazing uses.

By: Akbweb2

Akbweb2 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Why do we drill and excavate holes across huge swaths of the earth and poison land, air and water by burning fossil fuels?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:52:00 +0000

My guess would be economics. There are efficiencies to putting this many panels in one place.

By: D in SJ

D in SJ — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:44:00 +0000

Why do we continue to cover open land, sometimes beautiful, pristine desert landscapes, with a supposedly green energy source?
Never mind all the pollution created in China for the panels, why can’t we put these things on rooftops and parking lots right where the power users are?
Green Graft…